The mystery of a missing father leads to an unmarked grave, new family members
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🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Hart Island is a narrow strip of land in New York, off the coast of the Bronx.
More than a million people are buried there in mass graves, with no headstones or plaques.
Annette Vega never met her biological father. She had been searching for him for decades.
That search finally led to Hart Island.
Along the way, she found the family that she never knew.
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| 0:00.0 | Heart Island is a narrow strip of land in New York off the coast of the Bronx. |
| 0:11.7 | More than a million people are buried there in mass |
| 0:14.7 | graves with no headstones or plaques. For this holiday episode of |
| 0:19.6 | Consider This we're doing something different. It's a story from the Radio Diaries |
| 0:24.2 | podcast about a woman searching for a father she never met, a man missing for over 30 |
| 0:30.1 | years. Her search leads her to Hart Island and along the way she finds the family |
| 0:36.4 | that she never knew. |
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